Re: Scary bugs
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Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu> writes:
>I'm back now, so here goes:
>
>Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl> writes:
>
>> Package: emacs20 (debian/main).
>> Maintainer: Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu>
>
>> 33237 /etc/alternatives/emacs not managed properly - /usr/bin/emacs doesn't run emacs20
>> [STRATEGY] Maintainer promised to fix this.
>
>Well, what do I do about this? I don't understand the problem,
The problem is that /usr/bin/emacs is a symlink to
/etc/alternatives/emacs. This in turn is a symlink to
/usr/bin/emacs20.2. Therefore if I type emacs, I run
/usr/bin/emacs20.2
When I originally reported the bug, I had upgraded to emacs20.3, so I
no longer had an emacs20.2 binary installed. Therefore if I typed
emacs, I got the error:
pc195:/usr/bin$emacs
bash: emacs: command not found
> and I
>can't reproduce it.
When I encountered the problem, I suspected it might have something to
do with running out of disk space, but others seem to be having it as
well, so perhaps that wasn't the problem.
I take it that purging emacs20 (and removing any emacs symlinks in
/etc/alteratives), installing the hamm version and then installing the
slink version doesn't reproduce it for you. From examining the bug
logs, it looks like installing the slink version and upgrading to
potato would also give the problem.
I suspect that at the time, I had emacs19 installed, and had perhaps
removed it during the upgrade (ie decided to replace emacs19 with
emacs20). I can't really remember in any detail as it was a year ago.
>Unless someone can explain what's going on in
>detail and/or how to reproduce it, or can explain how to fix it, I'm
>not sure what to do next.
>
Hope this was useful.
Chris
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